Something felt wrong at Pauley Pavilion on Sunday night. Four days earlier, after a double-digit beatdown of Washington, a reporter had asked center Tony Parker if these big scoring margins helped UCLA’s postseason chances. The 6-foot-9 b...

UCLA (17-12, 9-7) vs. Washington State (12-15, 6-9) Today, 6:30 p.m., Pauley Pavilion TV/Radio: FOX Sports 1/AM 570 Update: UCLA remains on the March Madness bubble, but it at least has a very good chance of getting a first-round bye...

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Excuses and reasons are different. “Four of my bogeys were on lip-outs,” is an excuse. “Paul George broke his leg,” is a reason. “My glutes didn’t activate,” could be either. UCLA lost at Oregon and Oregon State two weekends ago. Tony Parker, the center, did not play. Steve Alford, the Bruins coach, knows how excuses sound. On Saturday he didn’t care. “We went without Tony for two games and...

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Less than five weeks ago, UCLA’s season lay in the emergency room — sucking fierce gulps out of the ventilator, tapping for high-pitched beeps on the heart monitor. The Bruins had dropped five straight, mostly in embarrassing fashion: a 13-point loss to Gonzaga at home that never looked close; a 39-point loss to Kentucky that featured a historically awful first half;...

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Newly minted UCLA basketball players don’t have to look far to find the standard. Step into Pauley Pavilion and look up: 11 banners, none of them for Final Fours, Elite Eights or Sweet Sixteens. For the Bruins, it’s always been championship or bust. Nearing the end of an up-and-down season, UCLA will get a flesh-and-blood reminder at halftime of Saturday’s noon game against Oregon. The school will honor

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What started as one of UCLA’s most pleasant Signing Day surprises has finally fizzled out. Four-star linebacker Roquan Smith signed with Georgia on Friday, nine days after initially announcing for the Bruins on ESPNU. His news wasn’t exactly a shocker — not after he essentially accused the UCLA staff of lying to him in an interview with Rivals.com this week.

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How much of a difference will 17-thousandths of an inch make? That’s how much the NCAA changed its baseball heading into this season, lowering the height of the seams from .048 inches to .031. It’s just the latest change in a sport that’s long tried to tinker with its own tools. Just how dramatic an effect the new ball will have...

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Kevon Looney had the first shot, and he released it about 21 feet away on the left wing. Swish. A minute later, Bryce Alford took a turn, and the result was the same. A few minutes later, Isaac Hamilton joined the club. And 40 seconds after that, Alford hit another. Four 3-point shots, four makes. So it went for UCLA on Wednesday night as it rolled out to a 75-59 win over Oregon State -- avenging an 11-point loss in Corvallis last month and keeping slim NCAA tournament...

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Twenty years of UCLA basketball have proved one thing. Controversy beats apathy. The 1995 Bruins performed under the impatient glare of not just their fans, but the whole of L.A. The 2015 Bruins bring little anger, let alone surprise, when they lose. The 1995 Bruins had two losses, at Oregon and at home against Cal. Widespread counseling was needed after both. The 2015 Bruins have lost 10 games, and yet they look at the bright side. Their RPI is in the mid-40s. The 1995...

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BERKELEY, Calif. — A broken play opened the door for Dwight Tarwater to become the latest California player to deliver in the clutch. The fifth-year senior responded with what he called “the shot of my life.” Tarwater took a pass from Tyrone Wallace and made a 3-pointer with 18.9 seconds left after teammate Jabari Bird was late coming across the court, and the Golden Bears hung on to beat UCLA 64-62 on Saturday for their third consecutive win in the final...

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TODAY’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL GAME UCLA (14-9, 6-4) AT CAL (14-9, 4-6) Tipoff: 5 p.m. TV/Radio: Pac-12 Networks / AM 570 Update: UCLA hung on for a 69-67 win at Stanford on Thursday, clinching its first win outside of Los Angeles since Nov. 28. Now for that elusive Pac-12 road sweep. The Bruins have not won both parts of any conference trip since February 2014, when it won at both Colorado and Utah. ... During head coach Steve Alford’s debut season in 2013-14,...

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UCLA defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich will leave the Bruins to join the Atlanta Falcons, two days after head coach Jim Mora vowed to “fight tooth and nail to keep him.” Bruin Report Online, the Scout.com site covering UCLA, first reported the news Friday afternoon. The 37-year-old’s departure means that the Bruins will enter the 2015 season with their third defensive coordinator in as...